The Odessa File

1974 · 130 min · EN · PG · 6.6 (164 votes)

Dir. Ronald Neame · Starring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey · Music Andrew Lloyd Webber

“Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.”

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Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

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A gripping, methodical hunt for a ghost from the past. It feels like a cold case file brought to life, with mounting dread and a palpable sense of danger lurking beneath the surface of post-war society.

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